Re: Newer vegastrike : can we package that big ?

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> Ftpmasters, what is your opinion about such huge packages?
>
> *My* favorite would be a seperate archive, either data.debian.net or
> games.debian.net. Where data would be for all packages that are huge
> with an (expected) low userbase while games would be pretty specific.[1]
> I would even help in running that archive, but only if others also join,
> don't want to do it alone.

Does it really need to be an additional archive? I would propose
to use an additional archive section, like "data" and provide a
convenient way for mirror operators to opt this section in.

(IIRC there was talk about such selections wrt exotic architectures
a couple of years ago, but I don't know if it has been implemented)

Cheers,
        Moritz